★★★ This production may trade too heavily on frocks, hair-dos, and general youthful horseplay, but musically and dramatically it richly honours Verdi’s masterpiece 🖋️ michaelwchurch1
Opera Holland Park
kicks off at its Jacobean home in central London. And OHP, where artistic standards are very high, deserves plaudits. It’s an independent company with private donors but no public funding, so the Arts Council’s idiotic cuts haven’t affected it. And since its creation in 1996 it has gradually transformed its windswept space into something which both keeps the elements at bay, and allows the sound to be properly heard.now with an extension into the auditorium, is still testing designers to the limit.
Director Cecilia Stinton has set the action in a simulacrum of the Bullingdon Club in the 1920s, with Allessandro Scotto di Luzio’s Duke of Mantua as a professor, and his heavies transformed into “town and gown” figures. The hired assassin Sparafucile becomes a waiter, and a brutal student initiation rite sets the tone. A decision to merge crudely recorded sound with live singing in the opening scene disorients the ears to no discernible purpose.
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